BIRMINGHAM - If you are like me you completely discount official protests as posturing. In this age of suspicion of all politicians there is not much to be read into the President of Brazil, angry about spying, canceling a state visit to the United States, or the governments of Germany, Spain and France summoning their
LIVONIA ? Selling Risk Management Internally and gaining support For your program are the topics on Nov. 21 at the ISSA Motorcity Chapter meeting at Schoolcraft College. Stephen Marchewitz, President of SecureState, will talk about the Risk Based Approach to Security Management. To pull it off, you need support from senior management to make the
SAN FRANCISCO - Hundreds of protests around the world sparked up on Tuesday in what the hacking collective Anonymous called the "Million Mask March." Donning Guy Fawkes masks, the demonstrators' goal was to "defend humanity." The protests were scheduled for 450 cities and towns worldwide -- from Tampa, Fla., to Amsterdam to Mumbai, CNET News.Com
TENAFLY, N.J. - No business can avoid ?the cloud.? Some embrace cloud based services with enthusiasm as a formal way of delivering all or part of a given organization?s IT requirements, whilst others grudgingly accept them because it is near impossible to stop individual users or lines of business from building them in to business
TENAFLY, N.J. - One of the security-related topics that has the least actual impact on enterprise security has been getting the most attention from the security press and the security Twitterverse: the Edward Snowden NSA surveillance disclosures. If you made a list of the top 100 risks to any company (or any individual) NSA intercepting
TENAFLY, N.J. - As we approach the Internet of things, more and more things are keeping tabs on me. My toaster is watching me, and the blender is looking at me funny. Increasingly companies that collect data will have to have robust privacy policies about what they collect and store, who they share it with,
TENAFLY, N.J. - A European judge recently blocked a security researcher's paper describing how to bypass a car's immobilizer theft-protection system. The Next Generation of airline control systems is designed to efficiently improve air travel, but the new system reportedly uses no encryption on its communications links, and is also missing authentication mechanisms meaning false
TENAFLY, N.J. - How do you defend against something that's never been seen before? That's the key question organizations struggle with. A decade ago, the first victims of any worm or virus outbreak had difficulty defending against a brand-new threat, leaving resources vulnerable until the attack could be detected and signatures created. Today the ultimate
TENAFLY,N.J.- Two secure email services, Lavabit and Silent Circle, on Wednesday announced the formation of the Dark Mail Alliance. The announcement at the Inbox Love email conference in Mountain View, California, follows the shuttering of the services in August. At that time Lavabit founder Ladar Levison said he was forced to close after pressure was
NOVI - Just as a fire department might recruit volunteer fire fighters to train and prepare for an emergency, the State of Michigan announced that it would be creating a Cyber Civilian Militia. During the sold out 2013 Michigan Cyber Summit, themed around the growing risk of cyber attacks, Gov. Rick Snyder made the formal